Ak Buttons & Bookmarks

He/Him crafter and etsy seller working out of the great (mostly) frozen North. You can find my Etsy store here: https://akbuttonsandbookmark.etsy.com

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Current project: upcycling Nightwing stuff from the Tom Taylor/Bruno Redondo run for a customer request. Mining for/making bookmarks, keychains, buttons, and coasters!

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Just posted a BIG restock of my upcycled polyhedral comic dice and wee small restock of my upcycled D6 marvel dice.

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Saruman tuning into the Merry and Pippin show

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Initial batch of Monstress upcycled bookmarks posted to my Etsy store!

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Big restock/refresh of my upcycled Kamala Khan bookmarks on my etsy store!

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First batch of Kamala Khan upcycled keychains! On my etsy store if you're interested 🤓

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Just posted an initial batch of upcycled Reincarnated as a Sword dice to my Etsy store!

Not sure if this is for a fandom thats very big, but hopefully one day some eager little fan will find the dice cool enough to order!

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Just posted a restock to my etsy shop for the upcycled Witch Hat coasters I make!

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Current project: base layer of a new batch of upcycled comic scrap dice.

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Current project: first batch of upcycled Monstress bookmarks!

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Current project: numbering a big batch of star wars and marvel uocycled d6's!

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Do I have other projects I should be working on? Probably. Am I making more Magneto and Quentin Quire bookmarks and keychains I might ever be able to sell? Also maybe. But damnit, I'm having sooooo much fun!

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Current project: batch of upcycled x-men goodies, focusing on Magneto and Quentin Quire for custom orders.

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Current project: batch of upcycled x-men goodies, focusing on Magneto and Quentin Quire for custom orders.

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I have been hyper-aware of how much fandoms (especially surface level/mainstream fandom) has changed over my life. I graduated high school right about 2000 but didn't really get into "nerdy" genre stuff till later on in that decade. I look back then, then look at NOW and it's almost painful. For so long fandom was about what you LOVED about something, but now its so hard to find spaces where it doesn't feel like fandom is mostly about what you HATE.

Some of it is clearly "bigger than fandom" cultural issues, but I think a lot of it is what social media and algorithmic web based worlds has made things. Rage and hate gets clicks. And ten, twenty plus years ago nerdy stuff had so little, ESPECIALLY in video format. If you liked any kind of sci-fi or fantasy stuff you had to cling joyfully to the little you had.

Now there's so much... I think that makes being critical easier. And that can be good thing! Art can always be better, and genres can and should grow and evolve. But media criticism so easily turns into petty bitching and hate when culture at large has stopped being about what we love.

I am trying to be more aware of it. To not engage in hating of stuff, especially stuff I love and even more for stuff that just isn't for me. I want to engage with media and genres I adore in better ways, I want to celebrate what I LOVE about them and to to think/talk less about what I hate.

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I try to use every bit of the comics I make my stuff with, and even save all the otherwise useless scraps to cobble together mini bookmarks that double as business cards. One of my favorite little side projects :)